Noun: gilet
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | gilet |
| Plural m | gilets |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like gilet
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From regional Italian gileccu (Calabria), gilecco (Genoa), gelecco (Naples), ggileccu (Sicily), etc. (standard Italian gilè is borrowed from French), from Turkish yelek (“jelick; vest, waistcoat”) (ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yẹl (“wind”, noun)) with the final syllable modified to match other types of clothing such as corselet and mantelet. The Oxford English Dictionary does not regard the word as having derived from Arabic جَلِيقَة (jalīqa), which it views as a recent borrowing from Italian into Algerian Arabic. Compare Greek γιλέκο (giléko), Spanish chaleco. See: Italian Nouns '
gilè', Greek Nouns '
γιλέκο', Spanish Nouns '
chaleco'.
Verbs referencing "gilet"
English Nouns
gilet, Dutch Nouns
gilet, Italian Nouns
gilè, Russian Nouns
жилет, Bulgarian Nouns
жилетка.
Translations